Happy Mother's Day - Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge #27 - Steel Magnolias

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY Everyone!!!!

This week, in honor of Mother's Day - we are featuring the movie: Steel Magnolias at the Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge. Every week, we pick a movie and create a card/LO or altered project that is inspired by the movie (either from the costumes, dialogue, characters, music, etc.). This week's movie pick not only a movie about mother-daughter relationships -but also frienships and the strength of women - who are as tough as steel but as soft and beautiful as the magnolia flower.

I remember watching this movie a long time ago - and just laughing and crying - but somehow watching it this week as I gpt ready to make my card - I appreciated this movie at a whole different level. I think it is because this is the first time I am re-watching the movie after becoming a mother... and the experience was totally different. I feel like I understood SaField's role sooo muc more - and the scene with Julia Robetrts and her baby - when her husband comes home ( - that scene just had me in tears - I can't imagine something like that - and it was hard for me to watch that - because I was thinking of my little wee ones... I adore adore Sally Field in this movie - she is such an inspiration - and her relationship with her daughter in this movie is so real, perfect and wonderful.


So it was that relationship that I wanted to honor and I used Julee's awesome sketch from this week's Mojo Monday #85 for this card - along with her beautiful stamps from Verve. The sentiment is from the Because of You stamp set and the flowers are from the Wishful Elegance set. I absolutely Adore this sentiment - and thought it really captured the mother/daughter relationship between Sally Fields and Julia Roberts.

The papers are from Basic Grey, the buttons are from stash, the ink is Adirondack Expresso and the Pearls are from Kaiser. I had so much fun making this card, which I made as I watched Steel Magnolias again - and I have to say - that once the tears started - it was hard to get them to stop - Sally Fields soooo ROCKs that scene at the end -- and I just finished the movie so grateful and also so inspired and it brought back alot of memories from my childhood. One of my favorite memories with my mom is sitting by the window whenever it was a cloudy rainy day - with the windows open :) and she would drink her chai and I would drink hot milk with a spoonful of her chai in my cup! Even to this day - i LOVE cloudy days - and totally ache for a cup of chai as soon as the rains come!

I have to say that it wasn't until I became a mother -that the fullness of all that my mother had gone through and undergone really hit home. I have always always always adored, and admired my mother - she is my rock. And it was only when I held my first born that I truly understood that ache in a mother's heart --- it is an ache of love, of fierce protection, of letting go, of unconditional love -- a love so deep - that it can cut metal - a love so nourishing, that it can heal all wounds - a love so unbounded - that all sorrows melt into joy.


I only hope that I can be a quarter of the mother that my mom has been for me - she is truly inspirational and is the rock of my heart.

Please check out more details on our Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge and we hope that you play along!

Wishing each of you a wonderful mother's day!
Hugs,
Sankari :)